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14McDermott as a ColleagueThe Pluralist 15 (1): 95-97. 2020.Although I took one class with John McDermott at SUNY Stony Brook, I write as a colleague who came through the ranks under his mentorship at Texas A&M from 1980 to 1997, when I left College Station to assume the Joyce and Edward E. Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue University. I came to Texas A&M during the transition from McDermott's term as the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities to the leadership of Professor Hugh McCann. It was a heady time in Central Texas, and especi…Read more
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23Conceptual and Logical Aspects of the ‘New’ Evolutionary EpistemologyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 18 (sup1): 235-253. 1988.
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5Book Review of Sarah Franklin, Dolly Mixtures (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21 (4): 385-388. 2008.
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Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary PrincipleJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10 351-354. 2001.
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Resistance to risky technologiesIn David M. Kaplan (ed.), Philosophy, technology, and the environment, The Mit Press. 2017.
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EconomicsIn Michael C. Appleby, Anna Olsson & Francisco Galindo (eds.), Animal welfare, Cabi. 2018.
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9Richard Haynes and the early years of Agriculture and Human ValuesAgriculture and Human Values 40 (1): 45-48. 2023.Richard P. Haynes, founding editor of _Agriculture and Human Values_, was an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florida. His personal interests in the environmental dimensions of agriculture led him to found the journal in the 1980s with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Later in life, he published on ethical treatment of lab and farm animals. Haynes understood _Agriculture and Human Values_ as a broadly multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platfo…Read more
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Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California (Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press, 2004). Reviewed by Paul B. Thompson, in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21(2008):297-301 (review)Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 21. 2008.
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28Machines, Watersheds, and SustainabilityThe Pluralist 11 (1): 110-116. 2016.brook muller begins his contribution to the Coss Dialogues by contesting and at least partially deconstructing Le Corbusier’s aphorism “a house is a machine for living.” He then trades upon an ambiguity that masks the difference between watersheds that mark an important transition from one phase to another and those that are defined by the drainage area associated with a body of water. The 2015 Coss Dialogues took place in the watershed of the Grand River, which extends from its southeast limit …Read more
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23Biosafety, Ethics, and Regulation of Transgenic AnimalsIn , Humana Press. pp. 183-206. 2004.Transgenic animals—animals with genes added to their deoxyribonucleic acid —will no longer be limited by the gene pool of their parents. Such animals are slated to be created expressly to provide vital and novel benefits for human beings. These animals can have desirable characteristics or traits from virtually any gene pool and may also possess properties not present in nature or available through conventional breeding. They will be created for the production of new medical and pharmaceutical p…Read more
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15Food System Transformation and the Role of Gene Technology: An Ethical AnalysisEthics and International Affairs 35 (1): 35-49. 2021.The global food system exhibits dizzying complexity, with interaction among social, economic, biological, and technological factors. Opposition to the first generation of plants and animals transformed through rDNA-enabled gene transfer has been a signature episode in resistance to the forces of industrialization and globalization in the food system. Yet agricultural scientists continue to tout gene technology as an essential component in meeting future global food needs. An ethical analysis of …Read more
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23Author Meets Critics: Paul Thompson, The Spirit of the Soil, 2nd EdEthics, Policy and Environment 25 (2): 194-223. 2022.Clark WolfDepartment of Philosophy & Religious Studies,Iowa State UniversityPaul Thompson’s Spirit of the Soil was groundbreaking when it appeared in 1995, and has aged remarkably well. The substan...
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8Book reviews (review)Agriculture and Human Values 3 (3): 41-80. 1986.My contribution is a review of Jeremy Rifkin's Declaration of a Heretic
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502The Many Meanings of Sustainability: A Competing Paradigms ApproachIn Steven A. Moore (ed.), Pragmatic Sustainability: Dispositions for Critical Adaptation, . pp. 16-28. 2016.Although the word 'sustainability' is used broadly, scientific approaches to sustainability fall into one of two competing paradigms. Following the influential Brundtland report of 1987. some theorists identify sustainability with some form of resource availability, and develop indicators for sustainability that stress capital depletion. This approach has spawned debates about the intersubstitutivity of capitals, with many environmental theorists arguing that at some point, depletion of natural …Read more
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237The chapter discusses two points of intersection between the communication of science-based information about risk and philosophical ethics. The first is a logically unnecessary bias toward consequentialist ethics, and a corresponding tendency to overlook the significance of deontological and virtue based ways to interpret the findings of a scientific risk analysis. The second is a grammatical bias that puts scientific communicators at odds with the expectations of a non-scientific audience.
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246Ihde's PragmatismIn Reimaging Philosophy and Technology, Reinventing Ihde. pp. 43-62. 2020.Don Ihde has characterized his philosophy as "phenomenology + pragmatism." This article argues that Ihde's pragmatism can be understood as consistency with two philosophical commitments from the first generation of American pragmatists (e.g. Peirce, James, Dewey and Addams). First, Ihde's notion of embodiment relations for tools and techniques is consistent with the organism-environment relational epistemology of these thinkers. Second, his desire to dissociate himself from romantic and neo-idea…Read more
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31Agrarianism and the American philosophical traditionAgriculture and Human Values 7 (1): 3-8. 1990.
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2Native Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 73-76. 2004.
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7Native Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 32 (98): 73-76. 2004.
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1The agrarian roots of pragmatism / edited by Paul B. Thompson and Thomas C. Hilde (edited book)Vanderbilt University Press. 2000.The essays in this volume critically analyze and revitalize agrarian philosophy by tracing its evolution in the classical American philosophy of key figures such as Franklin, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, Dewey, and Royce.
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The Agrarian Roots of PragmatismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 39 (2): 334-341. 2003.
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3Thoreau’s Living Ethics (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 33 (101): 29-35. 2005.
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4The Ethics of Intensification: Agricultural Development and Cultural Chang (edited book)Springer. 2008.The Ethics of Agricultural Intensification: An Interdisciplinary and International Conversation Paul B. Thompson and John Otieno Ouko* Global agriculture faces a number of challenges as the world approaches the second decade of the third millennium. Predictions unilaterally indicate dramatic increases in world population between 2010 and 2030, and a trend in developing countries toward greater consumption of animal products could multiply the need for prod- tion of basic grains even further. Alt…Read more
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108Theorizing Technological and Institutional ChangeTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 11 (1): 19-31. 2007.Formal, informal and material institutions constitute the framework for human interaction and communicative practice. Three ideas from institutional theory are particularly relevant to technical change. Exclusion cost refers to the effort that must be expended to prevent others from usurping or interfering in one’s use or disposal of a given good or resource. Alienability refers to the ability to tangibly extricate a good or resource from one setting, making it available for exchange relations. …Read more
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47Introduction, Dan Bromley, 2014 Coss Dialogues Invited SpeakerThe Pluralist 10 (1): 1-5. 2015.the coss dialogues were initiated in 1995 to foster cross talk between philosophers working in the classical American tradition modeled by C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Jane Addams, and others, on the one hand, and contemporary representatives from other traditions, especially disciplines other than philosophy, on the other. The format for the Coss Dialogues was originally conceived as a plenary presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosop…Read more
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6Introduction to Food Justice and GovernanceIn Ian Werkheiser & Zachary Piso (eds.), Food Justice in Us and Global Contexts: Bringing Theory and Practice Together, Springer Verlag. pp. 165-170. 2017.Essay introducing other papers in the volume.
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